Category Archives: A little history

You Look Like a Monkey~

Posted on October 7, 2009 by K

Somehow over the years, all these traditions just showed up and took residence in our house. Birthday traditions.  Christmas ones.  Easter ones.  Some came from G’s family, some from mine. Some I made up myself.  I don’t know what I … Continue reading →

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Why We Discourage Early Dating

Posted on August 24, 2009 by K

You see what I’m talking about?  You SEE???   Whose children ARE these?  Where are their MOTHERS?  More to the point, which one of those mothers is taking this shot?  This is the peril.  This is the danger.  I mean, … Continue reading →

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He’ll be going round the mountain . . .

Posted on August 23, 2009 by K

M will be home, ten months from yesterday.  That was the first important thing about yesterday.  The second is that we ended up taking the colt for his FIRST LONG RIDE up the mountain.  It was a miracle of circumstance: … Continue reading →

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~:: having a hay day ::~

Posted on July 15, 2009 by K

Now, ya’ll may not find this interesting.  But as a dyed-in-the-wool ignorant suburb-baby, I find it absolutely and utterly fascinating.  Stick with me and I’ll have you well educated in the art of angsting over the coming winter and knowing … Continue reading →

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The 4th: part tres

Posted on July 10, 2009 by K

When I was a kid, I fell in love with Polyanna.  The movie, I mean, not the character.  I loved the prisms.  And I loved most of all the 4th of July bazaar—the games and the flags and the corn on … Continue reading →

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That thing I do –

Posted on June 15, 2009 by K

I’m always intending to amaze and delight by explaining the structure (sorry, choked on that one) of my day.  Really, it’s fascinating.  No.  It is.  So today, as I was slogging away at my Life’s Work, I pulled out a … Continue reading →

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Mowing

Posted on May 23, 2009 by K

Gin has done  her own study of this, but I find that I  have a little more to say. The odd thing about growing up is the ghosts you run into. I can remember G coming into the house one … Continue reading →

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Every little triumph counts

Posted on May 12, 2009 by K

            People always like to think that I am brave and fierce, a thing which is just completely untrue.  I’m verbal, which is a kind of armor, I suppose.  But I am not brave, and rarely … Continue reading →

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~in just spring

Posted on May 11, 2009 by K

There was a time in my life when I believed in magic. (If you read this out loud, you must say the word – say “magic”—very softly, as though you are breathing it, and feeling the touch softly on your … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 16, 2009 by K

First of all, may I tell you that after all that snow yesterday, the sun came out and melted it all?  We went to bed looking forward to more spring, which we thought would come bounding back today.  Ummm.  At … Continue reading →

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